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Setting the Chrome startup page
Adding sites to the Chrome bookmark bar
Setting the Chrome startup page
By default the Chrome startup page is set to a Google search, but that may not be the most helpful site that students or teachers need when they open their Chrome browser. Setting the startup page to Student Dashboard for learners or Teacher Dashboard for teachers makes Hāpara readily available to them without having to type in a thing!
Note: Administrator level access to your school's Google Admin Console is required.
Setting the teacher startup page: Hāpara Teacher Dashboard
- Go to admin.google.com and log in to the Google Admin Console using your administrator level email address.
- On the left, go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users and Browsers
- Type Startup at the top where you see Search or Add Filter and press Enter. This will keep you from having to scroll down to find the correct setting. The setting that is needed is Pages to load on startup.
- Choose the Organizational Unit (or OU) that contains the teachers.
- Choose Open a list of URL's from the Pages to load on startup setting and type https://app.hapara.com/ on the startup pages line.
- Click Save in the upper right corner.
- Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 if there are additional teacher OU's.
Setting the student startup page: Hāpara Student Dashboard
- Go to admin.google.com and log in to the Google Admin Console using your administrator level email address.
- On the left, go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users and Browsers
- Type Startup at the top where you see Search or Add Filter and press Enter. This will keep you from having to scroll down to find the correct setting. The setting that is needed is Pages to load on startup.
- Choose the Organizational Unit (or OU) that contains the students.
- Choose Open a list of URL's from the Pages to load on startup setting and type https://mystudentdashboard.com/ on the startup pages line.
- Click Save in the upper right corner.
- Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 if there are additional student OU's.
Allow 24 hours for any Google setting changes to take effect.
Adding sites to the Chrome bookmark bar
An alternative to setting the Chrome startup page is adding frequently used websites to the bookmark bar. This gives students and teachers a quick way to access these sites. This setting can be used instead of the Chrome startup page instructions above or in addition to the Chrome startup page.
Managed bookmarks: setting Hāpara Teacher Dashboard
- Go to admin.google.com and log in to the Google Admin Console using your administrator level email address.
- On the left, go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users and Browsers
- Type Bookmark at the top where you see Search or Add Filter and press Enter. This will keep you from having to scroll down to find the correct setting. The setting that is needed is found under User Experience.
- Choose the Organizational Unit (or OU) that contains the teachers.
- Click on Edit Bookmarks. If you would like to rename this folder to Our School Bookmarks or a name easier to recognize, choose Edit from the three dots to the right of the Managed bookmarks folder, name the folder, and then Save.
- Click + and select Bookmark. Type Teacher Dashboard as the bookmark display name and https://app.hapara.com/ as the Bookmark URL and click Add.
- Click Save in the upper right corner.
- Repeat steps 4, 5, 6 and 7 if there are additional teacher OU's.
Managed bookmarks: setting Hāpara Student Dashboard
- Go to admin.google.com and log in to the Google Admin Console using your administrator level email address.
- On the left, go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users and Browsers
- Type Bookmark at the top where you see Search or Add Filter and press Enter. This will keep you from having to scroll down to find the correct setting. The setting that is needed is found under User Experience.
- Choose the Organizational Unit (or OU) that contains the students.
- Click on Edit Bookmarks. If you would like to rename this folder to Our School Bookmarks or a name easier to recognize, choose Edit from the three dots to the right of the Managed bookmarks folder, name the folder, and then Save.
- Click + and select Bookmark. Type Teacher Dashboard as the bookmark display name and https://mystudentdashboard.com/ as the Bookmark URL.
- Click Save in the upper right corner.
- Repeat steps 4, 5, 6 and 7 if there are additional student OU's.